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The weekly stage show and broadcast would play an important role in the popularization of country music and is today the longest running radio program in the world. [2] By the late 1950s, the city's record labels dominated the country music genre with slick pop-country (Nashville sound), overtaking honky-tonk in the charts.
The Carolinas were known as the Province of Carolina during America's early colonial period, from 1663 to 1712. Prior to that, the land was considered part of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia, from 1609 to 1663. The province was named Carolina to honor King Charles I of England. Carolina is taken from the Latin word for "Charles", Carolus.
The song was named for Cumberland Gap, a narrow pass through the Cumberland Mountains, which was explored by Daniel Boone in the 1770s, as he blazed the Wilderness Road.In recognition of this heritage, the town of Cumberland Gap, Tennessee, hosts the monthly "Cumberland Mountain Music Show", with live gospel, bluegrass, and country music.
Conquistador Hernando de Soto, first European to visit Tennessee. In the 16th century, three Spanish expeditions passed through what is now Tennessee. [12] The Hernando de Soto expedition entered the Tennessee Valley via the Nolichucky River in June 1540, rested for several weeks at the village of Chiaha (near the modern Douglas Dam), and proceeded southward to the Coosa chiefdom in northern ...
Sayle arrived in Carolina aboard a Bermuda sloop with a number of Bermudian families to found the town of Charlestown. In early 1670 the Lords Proprietors founded a sturdier new settlement named Charles Town (present day Charleston) when they sent 150 colonists to the province, landing them on the south bank of the Ashley River, South Carolina ...
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At that time, Cherokee communities were on lands claimed by the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and the Overhill area, located in present-day eastern Tennessee. The break-away Chickamauga band (or Lower Cherokee), under War Chief Dragging Canoe ( Tsiyugunsini , 1738–1792), had retreated to and inhabited a mountainous area ...
At Charlotte’s Bank of America Stadium on Oct. 26, 2024, more than 82,000 fans joined a full lineup of stars performing a packed setlist of songs at the Concert for Carolina benefit concert.